Internal Elections and Appointment Process

We have postponed our Internal Elections and LGA Appointments
process until after the General Election. We will begin all processes on 9
June 2017.

Self-nomination for elections will close on 16 June
2017. Ballot papers will be sent out to Group Leaders on 19 June 2017 and will
close on 30 June 2017.

The deadline for self-nomination forms for LGA
Appointments will close 3 July 2017. If you are away during the submission
period, please ask a colleague or your political group office to send your
completed form in on your behalf.

Labour Party Manifesto 2017

LGA Labour Annual Report 2017

Out on the campaign trail? Send us
your best photos and they may appear in the Labour Group Annual Report. They
need to be high resolution and you’ll need to tell us who is in the photo and
give confirmation that everyone pictured is happy for us to use it. Please send them to anthie.zachariou@local.gov.uk

During the General Election period, there are daily press releases.
Please see here to
keep up to date with the latest news.

Housing, Local Government and Transport policy commission consultation

The Labour party has published eight
consultation documents, including on Housing,
Local Government and Transport and they want to hear from as many
councillors as possible.

The consultation is open until Wednesday
31 May 2017. All the submissions they receive will go to the appropriate policy
commission who will consider your ideas before rewriting the documents ahead of
a summer meeting of the National Policy Forum on the weekend of the 1 & 2
July 2017.

The website also includes details of
your local NPF representatives and your elected officials who are there to
represent you in the Agenda 2020 process.

News from the LGA

In light of the
General Election, we’ve been working hard on your behalf with the Labour policy
team who are drafting the manifesto. We have written to them, to set out the
key policy pledges that we want the manifesto to commit to. We have also
published a briefing that sets out the key commitments
we want adopted in order to help all parts of local government better support our
communities and deliver on the challenges facing the nation. If you have any
key figures from the Party in your patch hopefully you'll be able to restate
our lines in your discussions with them.

Opposition Watch

Theresa May’s social care
system is a lottery. Just hope you’re not unlucky